I listened to a podcast today for the second time – Kim Hill interviewing Matthew Collings. I realised I had blogged it before in Thousand Sketches, and there is a link there too – I recommend it.
If this is an age of shallowness then it is sort of deep to be shallow. Kim: “Shallow is the new deep”.
I don’t buy that though. It is an age where we are more conscious than ever and we flee. There are oceans of depth and we flee to the shallow. But not everyone. The “long tail” comes into play. At the top of the zeitgeist it may be shallow, ironical & tabloid, but down the tail it gets more interesting, there are activists, thinkers, and people having real relationships.
Anyway, it was a good listen even for the second time, happened cause I was cleaning up after re-installing a backup.